Omaha daily bee., 1887-01-02

chcm2e This relieved the pressure
from the band, but rs the support was
onc-sided il caused the ru file to hang un.
evenly at times. The only remedy for
this seemed 10 be the adoption of the
present form in which the whole of the
lower portion of the body is covered.
For long time If anybody dared dream
of such an innovation, she dared not
speak of 1t, and when at last the bounds
were lcaped by some courageous female
who donned the first drawers, there was
n wonderful hue ana cry, COMPARED 10
which anything in the history of modern
reforms is as nothing. Women wear
garments like men'sl' 'Womcn trying
to get into trouscrs"' Horror, Shame"
But somehow the storm was wcathercd
and the reform prevailed
There is no doubt said an elderly
woman, well known rs leader in one of
the reform movements, that there has
been great falling off IN the form rs
well as the spirit of courtesy toward
women during the last fifteen or twenty
years. i nave been told several times
that it was all on account of the persist
ent agitation that has been made by
WOMEN FOR THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN.
Men think, so these arguers say, that if
woman wants to be on an equality with
man she will have to give up the consid-
Grafton TO which she has been accus
toned. 1t may be true, but it is the agi-
tation that has given women things OF a
great deal more Importance.
81 don't think So said the professor;
''for my part, I'd rather have the consid-
GRAFTON and courtesy and gallantry with
which women were once treated than
have, without that gliding, all the rights
they talk about"
CAS- for me, put in the bright looking
daughter of the reformcr, I'D rather
stand up III the street ears all my life,
and get adequate pay for my work, than
receive all the gallantry in the world
along with halt wages. | don't care
whether or not man ever takes oft his
hat TO me If he will only recognize my
right TO equal pay for equal work If we
can't have both let's take the one that is
the most important"
"Wcll. " said Il lady from Chicago, II
don't think that has much to do with it.
In my opinion it Is all due to the decay
OF finer feeling among men. There one
particular thing in which you II find Il
great difference between New York and
the western cities. In Chicago, and it's
the same wherever I've been in the west,
a woman can go through the busiest
wholesale streets where the
loading and unloading of trun X
are going on across the sidewalk
all the time with much more ease than
here. I've often heard workmen in the
shabbiest clothes and the broadest
brogue reprovc one another for not hay
ing noticed the approach of Il woman
Look out there; what're yc dom? Let
the lady pass, is remark I've heard
many times in the street In New York
under similar circumstances you have to
watch and dodge and jump. and then
work kmen really seem to take pleasure in
ma king you think they are going to drop
their boxes and barrels on YOUR toes"
After what I've seen today" said
another woman, q New Yorker who en-
ploys herself much in charitable works,
~ am convinced that New York is the
most polite city on the continent Ii
was in the Offices of the board
OF charities. and correction, and
I'm sure il would be impossible
for gailantry to go one stop farther.
1t is the last possibility Of polite
ness. One of the officials has to attend
to the wants of a lot Of bodvagglcd, bccry
woman who file past his desk, and he ad
dressed them occasionally with Keep in
line, ladies, and wait your turn, ladies.
Two of the officials this morning were
discussing the case of one of the bccricst
and most bcdraggied of the lot, who
looked as though she would degrade
even the word female if it were applied
to her, and one OF them said, very earn
estly: What we want to do is TO keep
these ladies out of the poor house 1t
was the EXTREMIST case of poltcncss |
ever heard. CLARA BELLE.